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The semester’s almost over, and I’m really busy with papers. I do not normally procrastinate, however, I was re-reading some of previous posts and I realized something. While I did keep my readers up to date on my search for my summer internship, I never mentioned how I ended up working at the library.

Last semester, in a class I was taking titled The History of American Popular Culture; we did a unit on radio. The professor mentioned that the library was looking for someone to digitize old radio shows. The only experience I had with radio shows was listening to them at the Museum of Television and Radio in California. I had a blast listening to “The Goon Show” and “Burns and Allen.”

Based on that experience, digitizing radio shows sounded interesting, so I went up to her after class and asked her for more details. She was more than happy to give me the contact details for the library archivist. I then made an appointment with the archivist. The meeting went well, and at the end of it we set up what I would be working on, and what my hours would be.

Lesson learned: Using professors as a resource and following up with something that sounds interesting is a good idea, because you never know where it might lead. The internship that I’m doing now helped me get my summer internship, and who knows where that might lead.